Inch of rain due Friday; high of 66 Saturday. Broad Street updates. First of three big job fairs today. Football: Shorter hosts Miss. College tonight; Darlington at Model among state's top 10 games Friday. Weekend events.

Where Rome's news day starts – and ends. Updates all day at www.hometownheadlines.com:

 

Ware Mechanical forecast:

-Almost an inch of rain starting early Friday, ending early evening right around town for Friday night football. Today's high: 88. Saturday's high: 66 with 20-mph gusts.

Headlines:

• Business: 425 Broad St., home of Peach, on the market. LakePoint partner Ned Yost has Royals in playoffs. New name for Roman Court. Buzz
• Today through Oct. 29, three big job fairs: 50-plus employers in Cartersville; 80 temp jobs in Rome; 90-plus employers due in Acworth. Jobs
• Coosa Valley Fair updates: Seniors 55-plus get in free from 1-5 p.m. Schedule, links to winners. Fair
• Busy weekend at Barron Stadium (Hawks, Wolves, Vikings). Health fair for women. Sampling Cartersville restaurants. Weekend
• More than 8,000 due for Berry's Mountain Day celebration this weekend. Berry
• Breast Cancer Awareness growing in NW Georgia: Vargo Orthodontics, Blood Assurance (share yours with us). Pink
• Public Health restaurant inspection scores for Northwest Georgia. Dining
• Floyd County Jail reports from 4 and 8 a.m. as well as 8 p.m. Crimewatch

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• Today's business headlines from  Georgia Trend
• Northwest Georgia's best source for job leads. Click Career Builder

Chick-fil-A Dwarf House Sports Report  (click)

• Shorter vs. Mississippi College tonight at 7:30 at Barron Stadium. 'Blue Out' planned to salute title teams. Hawks
• Berry Vikings host Washington in Mountain Day showdown at Barron Stadium at 6 p.m. Saturday. Vikings
• John McClellan's high school picks: Model by 1 over Darlington; Calhoun over Adairsville by 16. Wins for Cartersville, Rome.
• Darlington at Model, Adairsville at Calhoun among the state's top 10 games this weekend, according to High School Daily. Thursday
• Coming Friday: Norman Arey's Norman's No-Nos. 15 guaranteed locks to lose (he went 13-2 last week), 7:30 p.m. kickoff, Barron Stadium.

Hometown Headlines Radio Edition on WRGA 98.7 FM & 1470 AM

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• Please join our guests including:
• At 7:40 a.m., Tom Hart, director of athletics at Berry College, on how colleges monitor player health concerns such as the injured player in the Berry-Rhodes game last weekend.
• At 8:10 a.m., Matt Pearce from the Small Business Development Center on protecting yourself from data breaches such as what Home Depot is going through.
• At 8:40 a.m., Chris Kozelle on Mountain Day at Berry College and what it means on- and off-campus.